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A treatise of the fear of God showing what it is, and how distinguished…A treatise of the fear of God shewing what it is, and how distinguished…
A treatise of the fear of God showing what it is, and how distinguished from that what is not so : also whence it comes, who has it, what are the effects, and what the privileges of those that have it in their hearts / by John Bunyan.A treatise of the fear of God shewing what it is, and how distinguished from that what is not so : also whence it comes, who has it, what are the effects, and what the priviledges of those that have it in their hearts / by John Bunyan.
London: printed for N. Ponder, 1679
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3. Add to this the revelation of Gods goodness, and it must needs make his presence dreadful to us; for when a poor defiled creature shall see, that this great God, hath, notwithstanding his greatness, goodness in his heart, and mercy to bestow upon him; this makes his presence yet the more dreadful. They shall fear the Lord and ⟨p. 10⟩his goodness, Hos. 3.5. The goodness as well as the greatness of God, doth beget in the heart of his elect, an awful reverence of his Majesty. Fear ye not me, saith the Lord, will ye not tremble at my presence? and then to engage us in our soul to the duty, he adds one of his wonderful mercies to the world, for a motive, Fear ye not me? why? who art thou? He answers (even I) which have set, or placed the Sand for the bound of Sea by a perpetual decree that it cannot pass; and though the waves thereof toss themselves yet can they not prevail, though they roar, yet can they not pass over it, Isa. 5.22.
3. Add to this the revelation of Gods goodness, and it must needs make his presence dreadful to us; for when a poor defiled creature shall see, that this great God, hath, notwithstanding his greatness, goodness in his heart, and mercy to bestow upon him; this makes his presence yet the more dreadful. They shall fear the Lord and ⟨p. 10⟩his goodness, Hos. 3.5. The goodness as well as the greatness of God, doth beget in the heart of his elect, an awful reverence of his Majesty. Fear ye not me, saith the Lord, will ye not tremble at my presence? and then to ingage us in our soul to the duty, he adds one of his wonderful mercies to the world, for a motive, Fear ye not me? why? who art thou? He answers (even I) which have set, or placed the Sand for the bound of Sea by a perpetual decree that it cannot pass; and though the waves thereof toss themselves yet can they not prevail, though they roar, yet can they not pass over it, Isa. 5.22.